Quotes About Harmony

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

All things want to float.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.